MEA would you like to play as another species?

No one of the big thing for me about ME is seeing the galaxy from a human perspective the multi race thing works well for DA but I don't think it will for ME. If we start doing that in ME. I'm worried it'll just start feeling like Dragon Age in space if they do that the fact that you only play as human and see things from a human perspective sets it apart.

In fairness though you still can in MP as you can play as Turian's Salarians and Asari even Angarra I believe from what I've seen I don't touch MP but I respect those that do though.

If qnyone posts for the next 12 hrs sorry I can't respond. Thanks for the responses so far.

No. I don't need to play the game as a Human wearing the skin of another race which unfortunately is what happened with Dragon Age: Inquisition they wrote the game so generically that it really didn't matter what race you were playing didn't matter expect for the way you looked. So why take the time and energy to make sure that all the difference races work for the protagonist with all the animations in armor/weapons/dialogue/squad interactions/world interactions for something that really isn't difference except for maybe a handful of dialogue if they even decide to do that. To properly do it in my opinion it would require a lot more writing and animations that a lot of people would probably consider "a waste of resources" just like they do with multiplayer when they find something they dislike.

Frankly I hope they go back to a single human protagonist with Dragon Age as well because it was proven with Inquisition and even Andromeda that BioWare has been trying to do too much with their games and that causes all the content to suffer. Its like all these movie studios trying to make their own share universes and the have the first movie suffer to a degree because they are trying to force it by adding all kinds of extra content to make the shared universe work at the detriment of what they were trying to release. To me that is what ruined Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, Amazing Spider-Man and now The Mummy.

I play and like MP but it's just a fun little sideline, best it's left at that and not used to influence anything else.

You raise a different point though. The "humans are special" thing is annoying and needs to go even if we're all still playing humans. As for playing other races, I wouldn't mind but I'm not in any hurry to either, particularly if it means diverting resources from something else (which it would have to in order to get more than the race choice being little more than a choice of skin).

The roleplay is different. My elves have a different background than my dwarfes or Qunari. So I roleplay them differently. My Elves believe in the elven gods, so refuse all the "Andraste's messiah" stuff, are in opposition to Sera, and always help elves. The dwarves fear the mages, so side with templars. In DAI a non andrastian human have no sense to me. But theother races have different background, and I can roleplay accordingly.
Those that for you are few things, for me are the icing on the cake of my roleplay experience.

God, can you imagine the internet hate when you find out Lexi is only romanceable by a Krogan character?

Racegating! Rewrite! 2/10 game - EaWare sucks ballz! Then they patch in universal love option for Lexi, pissed off fans come out claiming EaWare is now racist, sexist **phobes, whatever.

I can see where they went with keeping this part simple.

Perhaps but perhap sthey can do that with another IP at some point a lot of people are already complaining that MEA is just like DAI in space and tbh I can see their point the fact we're playing from a human perspective is what sets it apart from DA if we start converting the other species into the SP mix it gives those people more ammunition against it. ME and DA need to have things that set them apart from one another. Right now they do but allowing people to play as other species would kind of take one of those things that sets them apart away tbh. ME has always been about seeing things from a human standpoint I think and for me it should keep that.

I wouldn't. I like being human. May make for better replayability though.

No. I want my aliens to feel alien, not like re-skinned humans.

I usually choose a human for my first play through of anything, I like to play other species as a second playthrough but it's not a feature I miss when it's not there.

I would love it, personally. Human is fine, but it would be extra fun to roleplay one of the alien races too.